sufferage

www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9803/suffrage.html On Feb. 12, with cameras clicking, 16 "suffrage pilgrims" left New York City to walk to Washington for the parade. Many other people joined the original hikers at various stages, and the New York State Woman Suffrage Association's journal crowed that "no propaganda work undertaken by the State Association and Party has ever achieved such publicity." One of the New York group, Elizabeth Freeman, dressed as a gypsy and drove a yellow, horse-drawn wagon decorated with Votes for Women symbols and filled with pro-suffrage literature, a sure way to attract publicity. Two weeks after the procession five New York suffragists, including Elizabeth Freeman, reported to the Bronx motion picture studio of the Thomas A. Edison Co. to make a talking picture known as a Kinetophone, which included a cylinder recording of one-minute speeches by each of the women. This film with synchronized sound was shown in vaudeville houses where it was "hooted, jeered and hissed" by audiences.

undeadsinatra: Thanks for sharing the article about this hike from the Library of Congress Information Bulletin. In an effort to make these related photographs easier to locate, we are going to add the more accurate year and expand the title slightly in the source data and then reload the description in Flickr.

William Booth founded the Salvation Army. He died Aug. 20, 1912, so this picture would probably have been taken a few days later. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Booth

(William) Bramwell Booth was William Booth's eldest son, and became the 2nd General of the Salvation Army after his father's death.

captainslack and lifeasdaddy: Thanks for the information. We will add it to the source data and reload the description. According to the Salvation Army International Heritage Center: www1.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/www_uki_ihc.nsf/vw-sublinks... the funeral took place on August 29, 1912.

William Booth is buried in Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington,London together with his wife and other leaders of the Salvation Army. The headstone on his grave confidently claims he "went to Heaven".

William Booth's funeral was held on August 27, 1912.

It is so wonderful to see how a few women's actions lead to the amendment of suffrage for women!

There's a photo of a suffrage parade in Washington DC, between 1910 and 1915, elsewhere on the LoC stream. www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2616372206/

Even more related is www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2658868292/ entitled "Suffrage hike to Washington." undeadsinatra found an article about the event (a walk from New York to Washington DC). The other photo, of a larger group, appears to include at least two of these hikers.

Lovely photo !!! Women throughout history have toilled and struggled hard to achieve their rightfull place in society...the suffrage was only part of this struggle.

Hikers? These women appear to be on the roof of a building.

They were activists. Here's another photo www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3102053889/